The mildew is severely attacking the grape in the eastern part of France - Le Progres Agricole et Viticole opposes trinomial nomenclature, and therefore places a comma or the abbreviation var. between the specific and varietal names. It uses capital initials for all specific and varietal Latin names which are derived from proper nouns.

This is perhaps the best, as it is the costliest issue of The American Garden yet published. But the January number will be superior in several respects. Its most important new feature will be a colored frontispiece of new seedling begonias. We may be disappointed, but we are looking for the most natural, and therefore the most beautiful, floral plate seen in many years in any American horticultural journal.

The series of studies of Japanese fruits is expected to begin in that issue, and the accompanying illustrations are executed with that remarkable fidelity to nature that characterises Japanese art.

Other features will speak for themselves. Suffice it to say, that we believe no reader of these pages will be disappointed with the magazine in A. D. 1891.

The buildings of the Minnesota Experiment Station were destroyed by fire October 5.

Pitcher & Manda, Short Hills, New Jersey, are erecting several new orchid houses.

A garden of native plants is proposed by Professor Bastin, of Chicago, for the World's Fair.

The Botanical Ganette for October prints an excellent likeness of J. B. Ellis, the well-known American mycologist.

E. F. Ladd, formerly of the New York (Geneva) Experiment Station, becomes chemist to the North Dakota Station.

An American park association is suggested by Garden and Forest, Such an association would occupy an open and useful field.

F. W. Anderson, a botanist known for his work in Montana and elsewhere, has become assistant editor of the American Agriculturist.

The "first flower show and chrysanthemum exhibition," of Williamsport, Penn., was held at Chaapel's Flower Store, November 12 to 15.

E. Williams has resigned the secretaryship of the New Jersey Horticultural Society on account of ill health. The society has lost a good secretary.

Sereno Watson revives Hooker's genus eriogynia, formerly held as a section of spiraea, and refers three western plants to it as E. caspitosa, E. pectinata and E uniflora.

The Lumholtz Mexican exploring expedition has entered upon its labors. C. W. Hartmann, of Sweden, is the botanist. The expedition expects to be out until the fall of 1892.

The Society of Minnesota Florists held a chrysanthemum exhibition November 12-14, in the New York Life Building, Minneapolis. An attractive premium list was offered.

Our correspondent, Charles Howard Shinn, of Niles, California, has been made Inspector of California Experiment Stations, to succeed Mr. Klee. This is a worthy promotion.

The Bowker Fertilizer Co., Boston, issues an attractive and useful little illustrated pamphlet on window gardening, prepared by Professor S. T. Maynard, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.

James Morton, manager of Evergreen Flower Lodge, Clarksville, Tennessee, took all the flower premiums at the Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta. His display, both of plants and cut flowers, is said to be one of the best yet made in the country.

The American Florist has recently become a weekly. It was formerly semi-monthly. It has been a bright and vigorous journal from the first, and we are glad that it is to make itself twice as useful by coming twice as often. The subscription price remains the same.

Brandegea is a new genus of cucurbitaceae from the southwest, described by Cogniaux, the present authority upon this perplexing family. The genus is named in honor of T. S. Brandegee, a well-known California botanist. Two species, B. Bigelovii and B. monosperma, are described.